Rare case of pediatric cecal volvulus

An 11-year-old female child presented with abdominal pain, vomiting and constipation. An exploratory laparotomy revealed a cecal volvulus due to a congenital band and malfixation of the cecum. This was treated by excision of the band, derotation and decompression of cecum though an appendiceal stump...

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Autores principales: Mansoor, Khizer, Al Hamidi, Sa'ad, Khan, Abdul Mannan, Samujh, Ram
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2847135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20376252
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.57703
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author Mansoor, Khizer
Al Hamidi, Sa'ad
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Samujh, Ram
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description An 11-year-old female child presented with abdominal pain, vomiting and constipation. An exploratory laparotomy revealed a cecal volvulus due to a congenital band and malfixation of the cecum. This was treated by excision of the band, derotation and decompression of cecum though an appendiceal stump suction.
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spelling pubmed-28471352010-04-06 Rare case of pediatric cecal volvulus Mansoor, Khizer Al Hamidi, Sa'ad Khan, Abdul Mannan Samujh, Ram J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report An 11-year-old female child presented with abdominal pain, vomiting and constipation. An exploratory laparotomy revealed a cecal volvulus due to a congenital band and malfixation of the cecum. This was treated by excision of the band, derotation and decompression of cecum though an appendiceal stump suction. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2847135/ /pubmed/20376252 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.57703 Text en © Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rare case of pediatric cecal volvulus
title Rare case of pediatric cecal volvulus
title_full Rare case of pediatric cecal volvulus
title_fullStr Rare case of pediatric cecal volvulus
title_full_unstemmed Rare case of pediatric cecal volvulus
title_short Rare case of pediatric cecal volvulus
title_sort rare case of pediatric cecal volvulus
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2847135/
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